Indeed, many a media headline has taken aim at the singer’s “new figure”, with some sects concerned about how it’ll affect her career in today’s image-focal industry.

Never one to shy away from direct questions, the 31 year old broke her silence on the topic on everyone’s lips while promoting season 2 of The Voice yesterday.

Find out what she had to say after the jump…

Speaking on the media scrutiny of her weight at TCA’s press call in Pasadena last night, Aguilera offered:

“I’ve been in this for a long time. I came out on the scene when I was 17 years old. ‘You can never be too much of anything. You can never be too prefect, too thin, too curvy, too voluptuous,’ this, that. I’ve been on all sides of the spectrum.. [Every] female in this business at one time or another has had criticism… and I’m always a risk taker too.

I’m very confident in my body. I think my video works over the years have spoken to that… I’ve been no stranger to being very comfortable in my own skin.

As long as I’m happy in my own skin, that’s all I need, that’s all the confirmation I need. I’m happy where I am, I have a boyfriend love that loves my body, I love my body, my son is healthy and happy. That’s all that matters.”

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Aguilera’s aptly titled new single ‘Love Your Body’ is set to premiere within the weeks ahead.

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I got no problems with her weight gain
But she should DEFINETELY learn to dress for her current body type
She isn’t a size 0 anymore, she is more likely an 8 AT THE VERY LEAST
That means stop wearing outfits that you would need to be 100 lbs and 5’10” to pull off.
It also means knowing what looks good and what doesn’t
And sorry daaaahling but you are 30+ and your face cannot take the same amount of make up and such strong colors as it could when you were 18.
So…learn to dress more sophisticated and for your current size instead of still dressing as if you were size 0 being size 8, and darken the shade of blonde and start wearing more earth tones in the make up instead of electric blue/ hot pink / bright red / purple which makes her look like a transexual clown.

I’m not worried about Xtina. After ‘Bionic’ lost steam it was her official off season and there’s nothing wrong with gaining a few extra pounds then. Trust me, Chrissy will be back in shape when the album drops. She has done this before, she started getting thick ever since she was touring with Justin. Fast forward to the start of the Bionic project she was super thin. She’ll do it again!

She should so what makes her comfortable. Looking at these comments, I feel like y’all are bring cruel rather than constructive.
Celebs are human, and let’s not forget that. Her talent will still shine, and I think the weight makes her more relatable if anything.

Weight is not that important. What’s important is whether or not she is able to come out with a decent album. I don’t think she is at a dangerous weight. Some people are dangerously overweight. It does not look like she has reached that point. However I do think its important to eat healthy. If you can eat organic then by all means do so.

Sextina needs to stop making w**** sounding music —> 1. She’s too old 2. If she tries to dance, she’s gunna wobble too much! How she gunna promote f*** You Body when she can’t even mover her own?.. Aint nobody gunna love those saggy titties baby…

Tell em girl!!It’s ridiculous how much shade she got for gaining some lbs.For God’s sake, people have forgotten the definition of “fat”.Size 0 women are not the only type of females that aren’t fat!

Anyway, Christina always gains some weight before the beginning of an album campaign, but when she starts rehearsing about performances, she starts shedding them.The song is rumoured to be upbeat, so she’s going to lose some weight anyway before the performances.And also, in the behind the scenes footage of ‘The Vocie’ that she’s wearing loose black clothes, she looks like she did back in 2002, if not cuter

She doesn’t give a f*** what people have to say or feel about her! Because of that, it’s came with a whole new territory of getting labeled a stuck up cocky b**** with a nasty attitude and she’s wearing that label proudly. That’s why I love my Christina!

Well what else is she going to say? ” I’m fat and I hate my body?”. Absolutely not .

She’s always spoken about being comfortable in her skin but her boob job( done years ago) has ALWAYS suggested otherwise. ( and please don’t say she didn’t get one because it is obvious, just look at pictured before and after bionic)

It’s got to be hard to be a female public figure
and have people commenting on your looks, so you would have to build up a thick skin. I think she will lose some weight, it’s also a great way to get positive media attention.

People use Adele as an example of size in the industry but if you compare 19 Adele to 21 Adele, she has lost a significant amount
Of weight too. J HUD used to say she loved her curves but as soon as she lost weight, suddenly she was LOVING her new body ( and those paychecks$)! So basically they all say that they are confident because what else is there to say!

Christina can do her…, her answer is just what girls need to be hearing, right now she is healthy and relateable…, and she’s right, she got scrutinized at the beginning of her career for looking anorexic and now for being over-weight. Both times she maintained her stance and didn’t hide herself away or buck to the pressure…, in all honesty, with Adele ruling the charts globally the idea that u have to be a size zero or a gym bunny in order to deliver a quality album is outdated…, if she releases great music at her current weight and it does well, just watch the popstar body ideal switch from ‘unachievable’ to ‘normal’ and more curvy popstars flood onto the market. Also, I quite like the idea of a plus size era from her…, as if nothing else it gives the next project an added dimension.

so many insecure people in here, bitching like they are know the best, while only commenting negative things behind their computer. In here, she proved to me that she didn’t care about negative crap thrown to her this past years/decade. She true to herself

Its not her size that is the problem – its her awful dress sense, she dresses as if she was still as thin as her pre-baby days. Get a decent stylist and she would look much better. The dress she is wearing in that picture is giving her boobs no support at all and its far from flattering, within reason size really doesn’t matter (she is hardly obese by any stretch of the imagination) but all the time she is wearing those awful clothes she has been seen in of late she will continue to attract criticism. I still shudder over how she looked at the MJ Tribute concert, its an image problem not a weight problem ;o)

i agree wholeheartedly. she is in desperate need of a stylist who knows how to dress her for her body type. whether she has a small or a slightly fuller figure, her fans want her to look her very best. she is able to look as good as she sounds. christina needs to show she ‘loves her body’ by dressing it well.

it seems silly to suggest that extra pounds are going to keep anyone from buying her music unless the media constantly detracts from her record by making a big ugly thing of it.

she is amazing
she is a real artist with a mind and with amazing lyrics
she is special and i love her
i dont understand why the lessers hating but its just jealousy
she will rock 2012
keep on singing your song xtina
LOVE YOUR BODY #XTINA2012

I love to exercise to her genie in a bottle 2000 Christmas video! she has a fantastic voice! when I was 31, granted-I fussed over my weight and did stay around 100 lbs. 5’3″. but now i am 113 lbs. and older. It cannot be easy for her and other stars being so famous and have all your personals broadcast to the world. My heart goes out to her! she is a special lady!

Marilyn Monroe wannabe is not happy with the weight because she’s losing it now on the voice so being a hypocrite is soo wrong.Christina is not confortable being Christina one bit if she was she wouldn’t be having all that plastic surgery to become Marilyn , in her Genie in the bottle days she was thin flat b***,flat boobs ,cute face and now she’s too changed .Celebs focus too much on changing their originality to become perfect and ruin their looks with all that plastic.I feel sorry for her.